Nug News Roundup: Two Deadlines, a Bargain, and a Box of Stockings

The nugget sector had a week. Prices fell, a celebrity meal entered its final days, a sauce cleared customs, and a grocery chain announced it would be shipping nuggets shaped like stockings. Here is everything that did not get its own post, in order of urgency.

Burger King Puts Ten Nugs on Clearance

Burger King’s 10-piece Chicken Nuggets Small Meal now carries a suggested price of $3.99 at participating locations: ten nuggets, a small side (fries, onion rings, or Have-sies), and a small drink. The offer runs through Sunday, November 15. These are the overhauled nuggets the chain has been taking victory laps about, now priced like a chain that wants witnesses. Prices may vary by location, which is fast food for “your results may vary.”

Wendy’s Baby Gorgeous Meal Enters Hospice

The Baby Gorgeous Meal, built in honor of reality television’s Lisa Barlow, leaves us November 16. It is 10 nuggets, medium fries, a medium Diet Coke, and BBQ sauce, available only in the Wendy’s app and on DoorDash. Technically you could order every component separately forever. Spiritually, the glamour ends Sunday. Tell your grandchildren you were there, and that it came with a Diet Coke.

Chick-fil-A’s Spicy Sauce Is One Week Out

Spicy Chick-fil-A Sauce arrives November 16 at all U.S. restaurants, in dipping cups and 8-ounce bottles. It is the classic sauce with spicy peppers added, the chain’s first new sauce in a decade. For a company that moves at the pace of a glacier with excellent customer service, this is the equivalent of a moon landing. The sauce desk is clearing its calendar.

The Nuggets and Strips Mix Remains Classified

Select Chick-fil-A restaurants in Las Vegas and Nashville are testing a box that holds five nuggets (original or grilled) and two Chick-n-Strips together, through April 3, 2027. The rest of the country remains on the outside of this experiment, pressing its face against the glass. Under our jurisdiction, the box is ruled a nug with a strip escort.

Aldi Answers Tyson With Stockings

Aldi’s Kirkwood Holiday Shaped Nuggets land November 25: $6.99 for a 24-ounce box of breaded white-meat chicken in six holiday shapes, including Christmas trees, candy canes, stockings, and reindeer. Tyson deployed its reindeer earlier this month. The holiday nug arms race is now a two-front war, and the stocking is the first nug in history designed to be hung by the chimney with care. Do not hang it by the chimney.